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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dactylic hexameter with the thesis or first syllable of the last foot short or apparently short; a hexameter irregularly terminating in an iambus (⌣ —) or a pyrrhic (⌣ ⌣) instead of a spondee (— —) or trochee (— ⌣). See
dolichurus . Alsomeiurus .
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